Word: baumes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What makes this a brilliant picture is the way it has been directed by William K. Howard, onetime Cincinnati theatre manager, law student, sales adviser for Universal, who may be among the ten best directors of next year (see above). The story, which borrows the flashy tricks of Vicki Baum's play Grand Hotel, is a conventional melodrama with plot complications which would have been too numerous had they not been bunched on an ocean liner. Among the passengers on the S.S. Transatlantic are: a banker (John Halliday) scuttling to Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta...
...work with the Stadium Grand Opera Co. was Ernst Lert, longtime stage director at La Scala in Milan, dropped from the Metropolitan this year after two seasons. A facile lighting technician, Lert worked for sweeping effects in great patches of contrasted colors. His sister-in-law is Vicki Baum, playwright of famed Grand Hotel...
...even free publicity from the House of Representatives does not seem to have boosted its sales appreciably. Among the freaks and curiosities Ogden Nash's "Hard Lines" and a little book of ridiculous answers to examination questions called "Boners" are about the best sellers in Cambridge today. Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel" is the most successful of the recent novels and seems to have displaced the "Imperial Palace" of Arnold Bennett in popularity...
Grand Hotel. About once a season comes a play so superlative as this. People have been going to see Grand Hotel for some time in Max Reinhardt's Berlin theatre, elsewhere in Europe. It was written by Vicki Baum, staged, directed and produced (with Harry Moses) in Manhattan by Herman Shumlin. It is difficult to imagine a better translation than that which William A. Drake has made. Originally titled Menschen Inn Hotel (People in a Hotel), the play manages to grasp a large chunk of existence, thrust it into a Berlin hostelry, expose it completely. It would be easy...
...editors are as follows: Bailey Aldrich 2L, Frederick Baum 2L E. J. Brown 3L, Max Freund 2L, R. W. Hankins 2L, D. L. Kreeger 2L, L. S. Lesser 3L, S. H. Levt 2L, H. S. Marks 2L; A. M. Miller 2L, H. P. Moulton 3L, John Mulford 2L, A. A. Raum 2L, George Rosier 3L, L. P. Shoene 2L, Joseph Shulsky 2L, M. H. Siegel 2L, R. L. Stern 2L, E. I. Willis 2L, W. S. Youngman...